Cheap and Easy Cans-in-the-Back-of-the-Cupboard-You-Never-Use Dip

As a college student, you learn to make recipes up when you live paycheck to paycheck and have limited resources. This one my old roommate and I came up with when our cupboards were looking a little sparse. We just called it "dip". It's cheap, easy, a little ghetto, and actually pretty good. Especially when you don't really feel like cooking something. Makes for great leftovers too.

Ingredients:

• One chicken breast (two if you like it more chicken-y) (*also optional for vegetarians)
• One can black beans
• One can corn
• One can rotel
• One cup uncooked rice
• One bag tortilla chips

Cook the rice, in a rice cooker or on the stove, your choice.  Cook the chicken breast to your likening, I normally have frozen chicken breasts so I fry it with a little water, oil, garlic, salt, pepper, whatever seasonings I have in the cupboard that tastes alright with chicken.  Once it's cooked through all the way, shred the chicken into bite size pieces.  In a bowl, add the cooked rice, chicken chunks, can of rotel, can of corn (drained), and can of black beans drained or undrained.  I normally drain off the top liquid from the can of beans, but leave the rest.  It makes all the ingredients stick together a little better, ideal for chip dipping, but drained and rinsed works as well.  I normally add seasonings to taste, like a little cayenne pepper, chipotle seasoning, to add a kick.  Since the rice should still be hot, it warms up all of the other ingredients.  Serve with tortilla chips.  Also works great if you add a little shredded cheese, smoosh some between a tortilla, and fry it up.  Then you got yourself a fantastic quesadilla.

Normally serves about four hungry people.